FROM THEIR ENSOM EP – OUT TODAY ON FEARLESS RECORDS

LIVE APPEARANCES WITH DREAM STATE, UNDEROATH AND NECK DEEP COMING UP

Toronto, ON – March 22, 2019 – Parting Gift’s, Ensom EP, is released today via Fearless Records and the band have also revealed a music video for 3:07 (Moonlight), a track from the EP. “This is the first cry for help, the plea to the enemy,” says vocalist, Zac Vernon, of the composition. “When one attempts to face their nemesis and ask it what it wants, only to realize it wants nothing but the suffering. It is the understanding that the paralysis it brings about one can only endure without fighting it. This is where one surrenders themselves to the black water.”

The video follows visual accompaniments to further EP tracks, Without Sin and Pale, all three showcasing a strong aesthetic. The atmosphere, beauty, darkness and depth of Parting Gift’s black metal roots can be pinpointed throughout their own sound and aesthetic. Combined with the layered shimmer of shoegaze, gorgeous simplicity of indie and bludgeoning weight of post-hardcore, it is a smorgasbord of influences designed to ensnare and enrapture.

Parting Gift is a place of expression through the emotions that this existence deals out. Be it through love or loss, hatred or hardship, the music exists to be dissected. Using the darkness of the world we live in to create something beautiful is a very special trait and one that Vernon doesn’t take lightly. “As you grow up you realise that the world isn’t always a happy place to live in. Speaking from personal experience, I have seen a lot of bad things happen. Going into Parting Gift, I was viewing everything in a really negative light. Even though things have changed now, I can still channel all of that negativity into the way I write. I could be in the best mood but I could still come up with the darkest lyrics. I just couldn’t write something happy now.”

Ultimately Parting Gift is more than just a band. It is a feeling of release that we all possess. An urge deep inside that wants to break out, letting us be as happy, sad, angry or passionate as we want to be. Even at such an early stage in their journey, the band is serving as a vessel for the most human parts of existence and Zac hopes that can continue as they venture deeper in what it truly means to be. “Going forward I want to hone in on the craft of enabling people to feel like they belong to something. We want people to feel like they are an integral part of all of this.”

Parting Gift will hit the road in the UK with Dream State next week, have just been announced as support to Underoath in London in June and will be playing various festivals this summer including Download Festival.

PARTING GIFT ARE:
Zac Vernon (vocals) | Peter Vybiral (guitars)  
Jack Dutton (guitars) | George Barnes (drums)

TOUR DATES:
March 28 – Reading – Face Bar^
March 29 – Tunbridge Wells – Forum^ 

April 1 – Guildford – Boileroom^

April 2 – Oxford – Bullingdon^

April 3 – Peterborough – Met Lounge^

April 4 – Birmingham – Flapper^

April 6 – Blackpool – Bootleg Social^
April 7 – Manchester – Deaf Institute^
April 12 – Newcastle – Think Tank^

April 14 – Leeds – Key Club^
April 15 – Hull – Welly^

April 16 – Nottingham – Bodega^

April 17 – London – Underworld^

April 19 – Norwich – Waterfront Studio^

April 20 – Milton Keynes – Craufurd Arms^

April 21 – Brighton – Hope & Ruin^

April 22 – Cardiff – Clwb Ifor Bach^
April 25 – Brighton – Concorde 2 (with Neck Deep)
May 3 – Dorset – Teddy Rocks Festival
May 5 – Leicester – Handmade Festival
June 5 – London – Electric Ballroom (with Underoath)
June 15 – Download Festival
^ with Dream State

DOWNLOAD – hi-res EP art | DOWNLOAD – hi-res promo photo

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